The result of the domestication of a clay head is altogether removed from the starting point:
You’ll see that in relation to our neoteny studies, the eyes are larger, the skin smooth and hair free, the forehead larger and the nose smaller.
Is it just me, or is the domesticated head more appealing?
Are you drawn to look more at this one?
To look for longer?
Does it look more female to you?
Katherine explains more about the proportions of the domesticated head and, as she was working on it, the influence of the Uncanny Valley submission on making things look hyper real. In the digital world it seems the more neotenous and the more familiar (domesticated) an animal is; the more popular.
You can watch the morphing of the original head in to the domesticated head in this video:
